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What Should he Swear On?

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It appears that Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to congress, is also quite an effective politician. He wants to be sworn into congress holding a copy of the Qur’an, to which a number of “traditional” Christians have objected (on which more in a moment), and has chosen to do so on a copy previously…

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God Doesn’t Forgive?

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OK, this is shocking. Peter Kirk reports that: I interrupt my normal programme to bring you this shocking quote. Yes, the news is going round that Richard Cunningham, director of UCCF, said       God never forgives – he punishes. Apparently he said this during a talk at the recent Word Alive conference, the same one which…

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Can One Be a Bibleist?

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I received a link to the following video in a tweet from @TheActiveWord.  It seems so closely related to my last post that I’d include it here: There are several things I agree with here.  First, I do believe that the Bible has the sovereignty of God and the responsibility (of which some sort of…

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Letting the Holy Spirit Teach

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I’ve been meditating a bit on letting the Holy Spirit be the teacher. There’s an interesting corollary to letting the Holy Spirit teach—letting other people learn. You see, what we often want to do is to “let” the Holy Spirit teach other people what we already know, and what we think they need to learn….

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The Church that is Always Emerging

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God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself. 2 Corinthians 5:19 Do you feel the depth of that statement? Can I recommend that you stop now and read 2 Corinthians 5, or at least verses 11-21 before you continue this? I often think that we Christians don’t nearly get the meaning of this passage,…